My Festool tips and information site.

[Brice Burrell]

  Hello everyone, as some of you have already seen I have a website about Festool products, tips and projects. I'm inviting all of you to come take a look at the site, I recently put up the 3D animation page and finished a piece on the TS55.

Burrell custom carpentry, let me know what you think, what you would like to see next or if you have done some work that you think people would enjoy seeing, drop me a line, I'm open to your ideas.
Brice Burrell

 

[woodrat]

Very impressive.  Your animation cleared up a couple of questions I had about the MFT.

You must be very good, otherwise I do not see how you would have time to get any custom carpentry done.  ;D

Jeff K

 

[Brice Burrell]

You must be very good, otherwise I do not see how you would have time to get any custom carpentry done.  ;D

Jeff K

Having time not a problem for me anymore, since I decided to stop sleeping  .

Glad you found the animation helpful.

 

[Jesse Cloud]

Wow - way cool!  Wish I had your animation when I put my MFT together.  The manual is laughable and even Jerry's manual got me confused (easy to do ), had a couple of false starts.  The animation makes it easy to understand.

 

[Brice Burrell]

Jesse, I understand your comments on the manual, been there. The next animation project will likely be the TS55 on the MFT, after that I would like to tackle the installation of the boomarm on the CT vacs.

 

[Ned]

Brice,

Just looked at your MFT assembly page.  Very, very nice use of animation.

Ned

 

[Brice Burrell]

Thanks Ned.
More animation is one of the things I'm working on, a look at the OF1010 and OF1400 routers and I hope to feature some projects from members of this site in the near future.

 

[jimwho]

Great site. Everything is terrific.

 

[Corwin]

Hey Brice,

Those animations sure are fun!   Great job doesn't even begin... 

Corwin

 

[Brice Burrell]

Jim and Corwin, thanks for the kind words.

  There is a tremendous amount of work that goes into making the animation, but it is worth it. I hope to start working on the TS55 animation in the morning.

 

[Brice Burrell]

More animation coming soon.......

 

[woodrat]

Jesse, I understand your comments on the manual, been there. The next animation project will likely be the TS55 on the MFT, after that I would like to tackle the installation of the boomarm on the CT vacs.

Any chance I could convince you to do the boomarm first?

Keep up the great work.

Jeff K

 

[Brice Burrell]

  Well Jeff, I'd say the boomarm animation will take between 15-20 hours to get right, not sure when I can get to it. I hope it will be in the near future. Glad you are enjoying to site so far.

 

[Brice Burrell]

Well, let me share some of the things that I've added to the site since my last post on this thread.

Making a cut with the MFT and TS55 animation.
Review of the RS2E sander.
On the projects page: Fixed louver shutters with the Domino and Rob McGilp's coffee table.
On the non-Festool page, Sawhelper review.

Here is a sneak peek at what I'm working on now, A look at the Festool: OF1010 and OF1400 routers (the link is to a short video clip). When done, I hope to have the most comprehensive look at the 1010 and 1400 on the web! Some of the OF1010's page is up now, Festool "Ten Ten" router.

And in the near future, the RO125 and MFT on the power tools page, more "Festool" projects. And on the non-Festool page, reviews of the Bench Dog "Contractor's" router table and Grex 23-gauge pin nailer. And of course, more animation.

One more thing, I want to put up a "Tips and Tricks" page. The members of site are full of good ideas, so if you have a great Festool tip, send it to me: Brice@Burrellcustomcarpentry.com. The people with best tips will have a chance to get their 15 minutes of internet fame. If your tip is chosen, you can do the write up, with pictures with your smiling face, if you want.

As always, your feedback is welcome, so let me know what you think.

 

[Brice Burrell]

  I would like to thank all of the people who have taken time to visit my site. Looking at some of the August statistics for my site shows: an estimated 62% of the visitors save my site as a favorite, the power tool page is the most viewed this month and links to my site have popped up from all over the world! This month alone I've had visitors from the United States, Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark, France, Spain, Switzerland, Brazil, South Africa, Italy, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Austria, Singapore and Hong Kong. I can't tell you how happy it makes to see people from all over the world enjoying the site.

  I'm working on some new projects that I think you will like, so make so to check the site for updates. Once again thanks to all of you! And as always, your comments, questions and suggestions are welcome.

 

[bruegf]

Great job Brice,  I'm looking forward to seeing more.

Fred

 

[jonny round boy]

Brice,

Those animations - what program did you do them in? The models look like they're done in sketchup, is that correct? If so, did you animate them in Sketchup, too, or use another program?

Regards,

JRB

 

[Brice Burrell]

Jonny, the models were made using SketchUp, I then use Picture It! an old Microsoft program to make the animation.

 

[jonny round boy]

Cheers for that Brice. I thought so, but when I searched for 'festool' in the sketchup warehouse I didn't see your models. I guess you haven't uploaded them! I was using it earlier to do an accurate model of the guide rails (I was bored!), and after uploading it I remembered about seeing this post a while back, and just thought I'd check back.

 

[honeydoman]

nice website. and the review on gary's video is good.  I have all of his videos and have seen his road show many times at JLC and lumber companies.  I saw one of his first shows at the woodworking show in pomona back in 2000 or 2001 don't remember the exact year.

maybe you saw my review of the ts75 in the jlc mag last April issue that I did,  it is also posted on the festool site.  but festools have really improved my daily work and has made projects quicker and eaiser and more professional quality.  especially  the ts saws for ripping down to size plywood.  just like you, I remember trying to rip sheet  goods on my bosch portable table saw by myself!  and now it is so much simplier.

for those of you who do not have gary's videos you should check out his website and order the wainscott dvd set.  it will enlighten you on using the festools for all types of projects.

he is coming out very soon with part 2 of that set and it will add more techniques and ideas and training that I feel everbody can benefit from.